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• Lars Plakmeijer († 2010)

• Christiaan Houwen (79), Venlo, LI.NL. (Horstgraaf)
• Doris Elizabeth CRAM (75), Missouri, United States
• Bård Rømo (77)
• Dudley Brian Cobb ** (74), Liskeard, Cornwall, England
• Alexander Duffy (73), registered in Yarm, Durham, England died in Leicester Royal Infirmary
• Ab Klein Woolthuis (68), Oudeschild
• Cornelia DE VISSER (88), Perth, Australië
• Andries Lodewickus Dreyer (72)
• Anna Valeria Elisabeth LAVENT (93), Gent, Province of East Flanders, Belgium
• Cornelis Johannes Smit (87), Lijnden H'meer

• 1990 » Daveigh Chase, American actress
• 1991 » Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
• 1991 » Manuel Fischnaller, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier
• 1992 » Mitch Grassi, American singer and songwriter
• 1994 » Alejandra Álvarez, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1994 » Phillip Lindsay, American football player
• 1995 » Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player
• 1995 » Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player
• 2002 » Nicole Pircio, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

• 2007 » Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (b. 1913)
• 2007 » Nicola Zaccaria, Greek opera singer (b. 1923)
• 2008 » Norman Dello Joio, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 2011 » Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2011 » David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (b. 1961)
• 2011 » Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
• 2011 » Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (b. 1970)
• 2011 » Skip Thomas, American football player (b. 1950)
• 2012 » Chad Everett, American actor and director (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Sherman Hemsley, American actor and singer (b. 1938)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• January 31 » In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
• March 21 » Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
• March 27 » The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• April 10 » President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
• June 19 » Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
• December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

The temperature on July 24, 2009 was between 13.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.